The Day I Stopped Existing

Baby Nova “Do You Like That, Baby?”

This song is very obviously heavily influenced by Lana Del Rey, but in Baby Nova’s defense, if it actually was a Lana Del Rey song, it’d be among her best. (For real!) And besides that, I’m comfortable with Lana Del Rey being a genre that other artists can work in, in the way that artists like Prince, The Beach Boys, Neil Young, and Joy Division are basically their own genres.

“Do You Like That, Baby?” is a song about a very complicated and sexy dude. Baby Nova largely portrays him as a villain. As she puts it, he’s narcissistic, he’s cold, he’s vicious, he’s a cruel man that can’t care less. He’s got some kind of religious thing going on and that seems to intrigue her, but mostly she’s fixated on how good he is at sex. She loves feeling overwhelmed and submissive to this strange fucked up man, and it comes through in every horny second of this song. She’s not telling you about his faults to say “this is bad for me,” but rather, “this is why he turns me on.”

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